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If you like space, you will love this. The 2017 π Day art imagines the digits of π as a star catalogue with constellations of extinct animals and plants. The work is featured in the article Pi in the Sky at the Scientific American SA Visual blog.
And the seven stars go squawking
like geese about the sky

The Sky, northern hemisphere

The mysterious and incomplete sky is yours in these 100 megapixel and 10 gigapixel maps of the northern celestrial hemisphere.

Included are about 2.4 million stars from the major catalogues (HR, Hipparcos and Tycho-2). In the 10 gigapixel image, the entire 100+ million star UCAC4 catalogue is included. Canonical IAU constellation asterisms are included. About 100,000 deep sky objects are also shown. These are jittered to avoid overlap, which is why some clusters of objects appear as large globules of symbols.

In the 10 gigapixel map, labels are lovingly placed and formatted to include name, catalogue and magnitude data. The 100 megapixel map has no labels.

Stellar and deepsky object annotations taken from Vizier.

Martin Krzywinski @MKrzywinski mkweb.bcgsc.ca
Icons for celestial objects.

Click on one of the tabs below to select a list of hotspots for quick navigation. Some lists may take 5—10 seconds to load. Use the toolbar at the bottom of the map to apply filters and select lists.

Deepsky

The deepsky list has 1500 entries.

Initial map viewport is centered on Andromeda Galaxy (M31).







Martin Krzywinski | contact | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreBC Cancer Research CenterBC CancerPHSA
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